Food and Garden.

Beautiful Food - Beautiful Flowers and Fresh Herbs.

At Home With Us

Christmas and Pre Christmas

Feasting at Mel's was lovely.  She served a generous, light cooking but delicious dishes, the preparations and the attention to details that made the food, glorious food. 

The Christmas Feast - Thank You, Melanie

Baked Salmon with Lemon and Fresh Herbs

Prawns with herbs, Avocado Salad, Freshly Fried Crumbed Calamari,
Turkey and Cranberry Relish, and Garden Salad

Beautiful and Friendly Menu: It served children and adults perfectly. 

 Sweet by Susan was a luscious Berrymisu. The beautiful mixed berries dressed the dessert entirely.

Delicious and Luscious Dessert-Thank You Susan

Before Christmas With Us

All about cooking in my kitchen, easy, tasty and colourful.  Also, celebrate flowers in or from my garden to dress our home.

Minced Fruit Tart

Egg in Meat Wrapped in Brioche Dresses with Prosciutto.

Kipple Potato Salad

Pan-fried Roo Fillet

Spiced Braised Three Eggplants

 Flowers and Plants

Fresh Cut Red Roses

Espalier Apple Fuji Tree

Pink Cap Hydrangea

Looking back on beautiful THINGS.

Bihun Goreng

Egg Roll filled with Salmon.

Sliced Boiled Fruit Cakes

A Platter Boiled Fruit Cake for Morning Tea

Nuts in Water Pastry with Honey Syrup (based on Baklava)

Red Hot Devilled Chicken with Garnishes

Summer Sponge

Sweet Brioche filled with fruits and liquor dressed with
Mixed Glace Fruits

Sliced Brioches

Orange Mini Cake Filled with Orange Curd

Meringue with Chantilly Cream and Fresh Raspberries

A Chicken Dinner

Tumeric Rice Cones


Fried Tofu Balls

Red Hippeastrum and Roses

Beautiful Mixed Flowers-Waiting for Susan and Tris

Beautiful Bloom of Just Joy

Apple Cake with Meringue and Chocolate.

Fresh Baked Cashew Nuts

Fresh Baked Scones with Fruits

Love the Salad-Radicchio and Tomato with Balsamic

Savoury Scones

Powder Puffs

Egg Meat Loaf in Brioche

Yellow Rose Graham Thomas

Red Potted Hippeastrum

Pink Roses in a Large Vase

Freshly-Picked Herbs and Lettuce.

A Cone Shape of White Steam Rice Add 

Leg of Lamb with Rosemary to Roast

Braising Lamb with Fruits

Serving Braised Lamb with Fruits. and Garnishes

Pandanus Sponge Cake with Garnishes

Beautiful Cake for a Morning Tea

Pomelo - Garden Harvest

Lotis: Javanese Fruit Salad with Pomelo, Served with Hot dipping sauce.

Dear Friend helping to trim the top of our Hedges.

A Part of The Back Yard Garden

Cabbage Patch-Six Cabbages Growing

Tomato Plant in a Cage

Curry Tree-The Leaf is excellent for Curry.


Butter Lettuce

Chives

Edible Flowers and Fresh Herbs for Garnishes

Washing Herbs and Flowers

Pink Cake

Cream Puffs

Pretty Plate to Share


New Orchids

Noodles-Favourite Food

Bakmi Hokkien Goreng

Bakmi Hokkien Goreng Garnished with Prawn, Pork and Vegetables

Bakmi Goreng with Fresh Red Chilli

Susy Meat Loaf-Spiced minced and chicken fillet wrap in Silver beat leaves

The look of the Meat Loaf

Open Pumpkin Pie Dressed in White Chocolate and Pistachio nuts.

In my Vegetable Patch-Endive and Nasturtium

Wild Rocket and Mints

Newly Planted-Lemon Grass

Red Roses

Annual Flowering Plant Planted in 2016

Spring in the Backyard

New Year 2017

Moments - Sweet Indulgence

 Fruit Salad and Coffee Layer Cake

Harvest In The New Year 2017

Savoy Cabbage and Zucchini

It was good to look back about my cooking and my garden in the recent year 2016 and started the New year with sweet indulgence and the first harvest of my garden.  I am sure other good things are here, and I am looking forward to sharing new recipes with you.

January 2017

Susy